he phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court
cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from
witnesses and victims who were sure of their recollections, but DNA
evidence later overturned the conviction.
In a step toward
understanding how these faulty memories arise, MIT neuroscientists have
shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of mice. They
also found that many of the neurological traces of these memories are
identical in nature to those of authentic memories.
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